moby: dockerd and docker do not run well on NixOS

I ran this in a terminal on NixOS:

sudo dockerd

and then tried to run this in another terminal:

sudo docker ps

and I got

INFO[2019-08-09T17:31:25.236948800Z] libcontainerd: containerd is still running    pid=19738
INFO[2019-08-09T17:31:25.237059962Z] parsed scheme: "unix"                         module=grpc
INFO[2019-08-09T17:31:25.237070312Z] scheme "unix" not registered, fallback to default scheme  module=grpc
INFO[2019-08-09T17:31:25.237130872Z] ccResolverWrapper: sending new addresses to cc: [{unix:///var/run/docker/containerd/containerd.sock 0  <nil>}]  module=grpc
INFO[2019-08-09T17:31:25.237158523Z] ClientConn switching balancer to "pick_first"  module=grpc
INFO[2019-08-09T17:31:25.237232833Z] pickfirstBalancer: HandleSubConnStateChange: 0xc0007a74f0, CONNECTING  module=grpc
ERRO[2019-08-09T17:31:35.237214701Z] failed connecting to containerd               error="failed to dial \"/var/run/docker/containerd/containerd.sock\": context deadline exceeded" module=libcontainerd
INFO[2019-08-09T17:31:35.337438989Z] killing and restarting containerd             module=libcontainerd pid=19738
panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
[signal SIGSEGV: segmentation violation code=0x1 addr=0x0 pc=0x555f4b862d20]

goroutine 54 [running]:
github.com/docker/docker/vendor/github.com/containerd/containerd.(*Client).Close(0x0, 0x0, 0x0)
	/build/source/components/engine/.gopath/src/github.com/docker/docker/vendor/github.com/containerd/containerd/client.go:536 +0x30
github.com/docker/docker/libcontainerd/supervisor.(*remote).monitorDaemon(0xc0007ed040, 0x555f4c9313c0, 0xc000799e40)
	/build/source/components/engine/.gopath/src/github.com/docker/docker/libcontainerd/supervisor/remote_daemon.go:321 +0x24f
created by github.com/docker/docker/libcontainerd/supervisor.Start
	/build/source/components/engine/.gopath/src/github.com/docker/docker/libcontainerd/supervisor/remote_daemon.go:90 +0x3b5

not sure what that error is about. the docker -v output is:

Docker version 18.09.2, build 62479626f213818ba5b4565105a05277308587d5

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Created 5 years ago
Comments: 16 (4 by maintainers)

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ah, sorry; @angristan just posted the same 😂

thaJeztah on Aug 19, 2019

The issue seems closable now?

Other nix-specific issues should be reported to https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues

AkihiroSuda on Jan 24, 2020

Here is my config: https://github.com/angristan/nixos-config/blob/2f897306751d59326f3e6e26b2a08d1f1919ca8c/configuration.nix#L338-L346

angristan on Aug 22, 2019

journalctl -xe is usually not very useful (doesn’t give details why a unit failed); may want to use journalctl -xu <service>

thaJeztah on Aug 19, 2019

journalctl -xeu docker? Something is not quite right

angristan on Aug 19, 2019

Try to start the daemon with systemctl start docker or add:

virtualisation.docker.enableOnBoot = true;

angristan on Aug 19, 2019

@ORESoftware Why do you launch dockerd with sudo dockerd?

You should install docker with

virtualisation.docker.enable = true;

Which will install all that’s needed including a systemd service which supports socket activation.

angristan on Aug 19, 2019